On 1/1/2016 2:03 AM, John wrote:
On 1/1/2016 12:51 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:
Today Google informed me that someone tried to access my Google account
using my password, (nice of them to notify me, scary that they deduced
the issue from analyzing my activity). So I changed my password and
upped the security on the account.
So of course my e-mail client, (Thunderbird), could no longer log in
using the POP server. Google's new security protocol breaks standard
email login. Who the hell do they think they are Microsoft?
So I had to lower the security settings, and of course, (once again),
it's all or nothing. I'm wondering how they got my password. It isn't
something that I'd put on the internet.
Did Google say someone had actually gained access to your account?
Could be someone tried to guess the password.
According to their e-mail they knew my password, but google blocked
access because, they tried to log in with a device I never used before,
from a location I never logged in from before, using an app I'd never
run before.
They could have tried to guess my password, it wouldn't be impossible,
as I believe a weak password you remember is better than a strong
password that you have written down where it can be found. So now I've
changed it to something that's not easily guessed. I just hope I don't
forget it.
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immortality through not dying.
-- Woody Allen
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